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Cleaning a Lubrication For KS7 and KSG

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To prevent rust I put a few drops of CLP Breakfree on a tooth brush and "scrub" all carbon steel or stainless gun parts.
This leaves a very thin layer of CLP, which is one of the best rust preventing products.

For lubrication I use Super Lube oil and grease.
Synco Super Lube is a clear-white fully synthetic, Teflon bearing lube.
It's good from -45 degrees to +450.

The grease is a stiff type.
The oil is a thin grease-thick oil consistency.
Both types stay right were they're put, never wick away, sling off, migrate, dry out, or evaporate.
I used it for customer and my own guns for years.
I've opened up revolvers that had been serviced and lubricated with Super Lube as much as 10 years earlier, and the Super Lube was still present and working.

These are perfect for defense and CCW guns because the lube stays put and working even under long term carry or ready storage with no danger of your lubricant disappearing.

Super Lube is also available in a spray grease. It sprays out of the can, sticks to the surface, and the carrier evaporates almost instantly, leaving a coat of grease about like the oil type.
After experimenting with WD-40 Dry Lubricant with Teflon for use inside shotgun magazine tubes I found I was getting an awful lot of "spring squeak" so I'm now spraying Super Lube into the tube of my KS7.
Unlike other lubricants, Super Lube will not run down the tube and into the action if stored upright.

I bought Super Lube direct from Synco in cans of grease, spray cans of the spray grease, and 4 ounce bottles of oil.
They also sell the grease in small tubes and the oil in needle oilers.
You can often find Super Lube in local hardware stores like Ace Hardware, Amazon, Harbor Freight, Home Depot, Lowe's, True Value, NAPA, and others.


Interestingly, MCarbo sells and shows Super Lube grease being used to lubricate a KSG trigger mechanism after installing one of their trigger kits.
 
I use the Super Lube grease in a can, the spray lube, and the oil.
I use these on all guns, my own and on customer guns when I was still working.
I ordered it direct from Synco, but it's sold in a number of local hardware stores. Check the distributors tab on the Synco site.............

Spray grease............


Grease in cans or small tubes. The small tubes are very handy in a shooting bag, but the better deal is the 14 ounce cans, or the 3 ounce tubes........


In the oil the better deal is the 4 ounce bottle, but the 7ml oiler is very handy.
Since the oilers can't be easily refilled and the plastic tubes tend to start cracking after a lot of use, I bought the 4 ounce bottles and fill hypodermic needles after stoning the sharp point off and polishing the tip............


I still use CLP Breakfree as a rust prevention product since it's one of the best.
Put a few drops on a clean, soft toothbrush and "scrub" the parts to leave a very thin coat.
 
CLP Breakfree is an excellent lubricant in the Kel-Tec shotguns, and will both protect and lubricate it very well.
The only down side to CLP is that like all liquid lubricants it tends to migrate away from key areas and will leak downward into actions of long guns if stored muzzle up.
Due to the non-standard design of the Kel-Tec guns this isn't as much a problem as with standard designs.

There isn't much available in a firearms lubricant that won't allow dust to adhere to it.
Dry lubes just don't work very well in firearms, which is why the military won't allow them to be used.
For various reasons guns just work better with a liquid lube or a grease.

Of the dry lubes "probably" the best is Molybdenum Dri-Slide.
This is a Moly lube in a carrier that evaporates and leaves a Moly coating.
I experimented with it years ago and decided it just wasn't very good in a firearms application.
You can find it online direct from Dri-Slide.

A dust condition would have to be pretty bad to cause actual problems with grease, and the answer to that is routine maintenance and a thin coat of grease on the critical surfaces. It doesn't take a thick coat.
The KS7 is surprisingly well sealed to dust intrusion into the action.

With all that said, I'd have no problem at all depending on just CLP Breakfree as a lubricant in any gun.
All that's needed is to check it regularly to make sure it hasn't evaporated or migrated away from where it should be.